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Michael Simms

LCSW, LAC, NMIT, CSAT, CIFST, ADS
Chief Operating Officer
All Points North

Michael Simms, LCSW, LAC, CSAT, CIFST, ADS, is the Chief Operating Officer at All Points North and a behavioral health leader whose career has been dedicated to mental health, addiction treatment, trauma recovery, and integrative care. Throughout his career, he has worked across the full continuum of care in roles including therapist, clinical director, executive director, and chief clinical officer, bringing both clinical depth and operational leadership to complex treatment environments.

Michael earned his Master of Social Work from Metropolitan State University of Denver and holds credentials in clinical social work, addictions counseling, sex addiction treatment, Internal Family Systems, Acudetox, and natural medicine facilitation in Colorado. His work is shaped by both professional expertise and lived experience in recovery, which continues to inform his commitment to compassionate, high-quality care.

He is especially passionate about trauma-informed treatment, innovative care models, and helping clients move beyond symptom management to achieve meaningful, lasting healing. Michael’s clinical interests include addiction recovery, trauma, process addictions, integrative approaches, and treatment models that support deeper self-understanding and sustainable change.

2027 Sessions

The Whole Wound: Suicide Prevention, Postvention, and Systemic Impact

Session Description: Suicide prevention in clinical practice often focuses intensely on acute crisis management and individual risk assessment. However, the systemic impact of suicide-spanning from the neurobiology of an acute crisis to the complex grief experienced by loss survivors and providers-requires a broader, more integrated therapeutic approach. This 90-minute interactive workshop equips mental health professionals and organizational leaders with the comprehensive tools needed to navigate both the prevention of suicide and the critical aftermath of a loss. Moving beyond the limitations of standard risk assessment checklists, the session first guides clinicians in developing collaborative clinical formulations and sustainable safety plans. Next, drawing upon the framework of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention's Resource and Healing Guide, the workshop explores "postvention as prevention." Through targeted case study analysis, participants will examine the unique contours of suicide bereavement, the indicators of complicated grief, and the profound ripple effect a loss has on systems. The workshop concludes with an open strategy discussion addressing the unspoken challenges of clinical work, including navigating professional liability, fears, managing secondary traumatic stress, and building robust support systems.

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Monday, March 29 2:45–4:00 PM
1.25 Credits
Clinical
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Philip Hemphill, PhD

PhD, LCSW
Chief Clinical Officer
All Points North Lodge

Dr. Philip Hemphill is the Chief Clinical Officer at All Points North. He’s practiced as a clinician, manager, consultant, executive leader, and board member for the past 30 years. He’s considered a thought leader in the behavioral health/addiction industry and has developed premier national programs for the evaluation, treatment, and monitoring of professionals with these needs. He has been the lead person for innovation and implementation for patient care services, policies and procedures, recruitment of talent, and fidelity measures. He’s pioneered some of the assessment and treatment of licensed professionals with co-occurring disorders and co-authored a book with Marty Martin, PhD in 2013 entitled, Taming Disruptive Behavior published by American Association for Physician Leadership Press. His second book Integrated Care in Addiction Treatment (2022) , is published by Routledge Press. Currently, he’s an editor for Frontiers in Public Health: SUD and Behavioral Addictions.
He has taught at Tulane University and LSU Health Sciences, Department of Psychiatry for the past 25 years. He received his master and doctoral degrees from Tulane University, School of Social Work.

Faculty

Michael Simms

LCSW, LAC, NMIT, CSAT, CIFST, ADS
Chief Operating Officer
All Points North

Michael Simms, LCSW, LAC, CSAT, CIFST, ADS, is the Chief Operating Officer at All Points North and a behavioral health leader whose career has been dedicated to mental health, addiction treatment, trauma recovery, and integrative care. Throughout his career, he has worked across the full continuum of care in roles including therapist, clinical director, executive director, and chief clinical officer, bringing both clinical depth and operational leadership to complex treatment environments.

Michael earned his Master of Social Work from Metropolitan State University of Denver and holds credentials in clinical social work, addictions counseling, sex addiction treatment, Internal Family Systems, Acudetox, and natural medicine facilitation in Colorado. His work is shaped by both professional expertise and lived experience in recovery, which continues to inform his commitment to compassionate, high-quality care.

He is especially passionate about trauma-informed treatment, innovative care models, and helping clients move beyond symptom management to achieve meaningful, lasting healing. Michael’s clinical interests include addiction recovery, trauma, process addictions, integrative approaches, and treatment models that support deeper self-understanding and sustainable change.
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